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When I saw WotC's (frankly pathetic) marketing for Seekers of the Ashen Crown, I was fairly sure that they were almost washing their hands of the idea of setting supplements. Thankfully the actual copy is a little better on that front, since it no longer gives "This isn't really just an Eberron...

Uh, Vital Strike isn't actually all that useful. Now, the one in the Pathfinder Beta wasn't, but the new one? Yeah. See, you're actually fairly likely to hit on your first attack (unless you're just boned) and your attack at -5. The attacks at -10 and -15 are significantly less likely, to the...

Wasn't really a question, just a statement that I knew I'd seen the idea of "base magic bonus" somewhere before, namely Unearthed Arcana for 3.5e. But also just kind of plugging your work there. :P

While I left it out of my original post for some reason, I think Bad Axe Games's Trailblazer (and probably some other products - it doesn't seem like an idea Wulf Ratbane could have generated whole-cloth, but I haven't really seen it before) attempted to present rules to make multiclassed...

Uh, 3e was released mid-2000 and revised in 2003. 4e was released mid-2008. It's currently mid-2009. As such, I don't think this statement is entirely true. Basically, nostalgia is usually seen as reminiscing about the "good old days", which usually weren't all that good. On the other hand...

Forewarning: I play primarily modded 3.5e, don't really care for Pathfinder except for a few things that I've adopted into my game, and run practically all my games as gestalt games. Your mileage may vary, especially about some balancing specifics. Unchanged from 3.5e. Multi-classed spell...

Huh. Given your math I came to the conclusion that in most fights - i.e. ones where you're not expecting it to turn into an absolute slogfest - you should probably use it every other round. To put it in perspective, you're dealing an average +1.05 damage/round for the entire fight if you use it...

D&D's corebooks might be. Splatbooks, I'm not so sure about. I've purchased a good few splatbooks in my life that weren't worth the price I paid, even compared to a movie, much less a video game, because I never wanted to use 90% or more of the things in it. Likewise for adventure modules that...

Well, I was just dismissing that line of argument altogether, because even if I was using incredibly ridiculous hyperbole compared to the original post, that nonsense is still bad. But why not, I'll respond to this, because it shows that you seem to not have gotten the thrust of my argument...

Whatever, dude. The original post was clearly "since NPCs don't have to resemble PCs at all, they can just do whatever the DM wants them to, regardless of whether or not a PC can do anything like it!", but even if you don't think it was, I don't really care. If you think furthermore that it's...

Yeah, I have to say, 4e = WoW always makes me snicker because the gaming community I'm in greatly prefers 3e... and is also mostly MMORPG fans, with I'd say at least half of us playing WoW. I mean, we have a few 4e fans too, but some of us play Final Fantasy XI too, so...!

I dunno, maybe the original post that started this conversation? --- It depends on if it was the one or two of my players who just wants to play an unusual character, one of the roughly 2/3 of my players who would want it because it fit well with their character, or one of the roughly 1/3 of...

I don't think his problem is "NPCs don't use the exact same character creation rules as PCs" so much as "NPC wizards can magically fly with no duration cap, teleport anywhere on the plane as a standard action, and summon Pit Fiends who have full stats and don't eat into their actions" - you...

I must have just missed this. Admittedly, I'm not following Pathfinder's development TOO closely, but the beta doesn't address LA at all, because it's not a monster manual and thus contains no rules for any races other than the seven core ones, which have always been ECL 0. If they are actually...

The only WotC adventure I've read that takes place in the Elemental Chaos takes place in the "Sea of Fire in the Elemental Chaos", which is distinguishable from explorable locations in the Elemental Plane of Fire by way of... well, nothing. Though it also introduced the term "blood chaos", so...

One of my current players frequentlyly points out how little gold and things readily converted to gold (as opposed to permanent magical bonuses, unique equipment, and useful non-unique equipment) I've been handing out in my War of the Burning Sky game. I tend to just respond by pointing and...

The Player's Guide and Campaign Guide are free for both versions of War of the Burning Sky, so I have them for both editions. I found the material in the 4e Player's Guide to be somewhat worrying in terms of their grasp of 4e mechanics.

Gotta agree with this, really. I DM a 3e game, but when I'm making villains, sometimes I give them abilities or shortcuts that are not, as such, available to the PCs. For instance, enemies who use buffs usually have them factored into their stats as "permanent" effects that they either cast...

Pathfinder doesn't really appeal to me as a game to play, but my current War of the Burning Sky campaign allows players to choose the Pathfinder Beta races, classes, and feats instead of the PHB ones, which is a good choice for all the races, most of the classes, and some of the feats. When...

Whenever I go read reviews for something, if it has multiple reviews I only read the negative reviews. See, I don't generally read reviews except to find out more about something I would already be inclined to purchase, and as such I want people to tell me exactly why it sucks and I shouldn't...